The proletariat

I generally lean towards classes with more mechanical complexity, so generally casters/status effect types. The gameplay loop needs to sate my ADHD, so if all I’m doing is smacking something with a sword by left clicking I’m quickly going to get bored and drop it.

Meme classes/builds. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. Maybe I’ve just shifted my younger “don’t tell me what to do” perspective into spite for video game developers and their limitations.

I always want to do the most unorthodox thing because I usually don’t vibe well with the pre-defined classes in a lot of games. I’ve quit MMOs because I just don’t like ANY of their classes as a whole package and wish they were more modular. That’s why I loved Ragnarok Online so much and have played those WoW private servers that let you pick abilities from every class.

I’ll dual wield shields in Souls games, make a battle priest in games that try to force them into being healers (Ragnarok). I used heavy armor, a pistol, and a shield in Grim Dawn to essentially be the Terminator. I loved Puppetmaster, one of the least played classes, in FFXI. Blue Mage in FFXIV. Whatever the class was in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance that let you flip a coin to 50/50 kill yourself or an enemy. Tonfas (the worst weapon in the game) in Nioh.

As long as the least played class isn’t that because it’s so unnecessarily complicated (Feral Druid many different times in WoW, etc) I naturally gravitate toward that a lot of the time. But it’s really based on vibes. If I get a cool combination of race and starting armor, I might just go with a concept, like an anti-mage or something.

Edit: I know I was supposed to hit you up to play Ragnarok sometime soon from a previous thread, but I started a Chinese class and got super busy

I usually enjoy tanks, but I am also hopelessly drawn to mechanically unusual stuff

The most fun I’ve had in a tabletop game was when I played an investigator in Pathfinder

I knocked out a bunch of dudes with my sap, broke down the big bad with a detailed psychological analysis and proved a bunch of goblins didn’t burn down a warehouse by noticing the real culprit rode a horse (Pathfinder goblins are terrified of horses)

When I was a kid, mages - or whatever hacker type equivalent if it was a scifi or near future ttepg

As an adult, gimme a big club to bonk enemies with.

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I tend to pick weirdo outsider classes, but also in ttrpg parties tend to slot in around other players.

I’ve always been the sneaky rogue type, but I haven’t played as many TTRPGs as I’d like. And I just can’t get into most video game RPGs, but my Skyrim character is always a stealth archer with a side of magic like everybody else’s Skyrim character is.

I find whichever class can smash the ground and make spikes come up. Sometimes it’s a caster, sometimes it’s a tank.

I love me some magic. If I’m not doing cool Dragon Ball like energy blasts I’m not interested.

But rn I’m playing oblivion where I find it kind of hard to brute force with mage, so I just use some supplementary spells as a nightblade.

always a sneaky/rogue type

Wizard, wizard, and wizard. Sometimes I’ll be a warrior, then I’ll immediately give up and and be a wizard.

Whichever one lets me run directly at the enemy and punch things the hardest. Fighter, barbarian, whatever

Big strong fat guys, I think I kind of just have a type ngl

I like anything with poison access. Watching the health tick away while I buy for time is satisfying.

I found the best class for the PC to be a combo of rogue skillbot with a dash of magical ability. You can usually fill in a weak melee front with party members, but oftentimes rpgs will suddenly remove you from your lockpicker/magic shit analyzer so having those skills on the one character all but guaranteed to be in the party is useful.